Duke and UNC Duke University University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Consortium for Classical and Mediterranean Archaeology

Joshua D. SosinJoshua D. Sosin

Title: Associate Professor of Classical Studies and History and Consortium for Classical and Mediterranean Archaeology
Office Location: 229A Allen Building
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Email Address: joshua.sosin@duke.edu
Web Page: http://www.duke.edu/~jds15

Education

  • Ph.D Duke University, 2000
  • BA, summa cum laude Mary Washington College, 1994

Research Interests

History from documents; papyrology, epigraphy, numismatics, palaeography. Economic history; money, land and the state; banking; civic finance. Latin poetry, especially satire; literary allusion; ancient scholia and commentaries

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

  • Andrew W. Mellon Associate Professor, Duke University, 2006/2007
  • Thomas Langford Lectureship Award, Duke University, 2006/2007
  • Harrington Faculty Fellow, Classics Dept., UT Austin, 05/06
  • Fellowship, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2002-03
  • Class of '51 Fund for Excellence in Education, the Class of '55 Fund for Excellence in Teaching and the Class of '72 Fund for Educational Innovation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001
  • Dean’s Fund for Faculty Development, MIT, 2000
  • Provost’s HASS Fund, MIT, 2000
  • Lawrence Richardson jr Named Instructorship in Classical Studies, Duke University Gaduate School, 1999-2000
  • Graduate Seminar (Summer) Fellowship, American Numismatic Society, 1997
  • Graduate Fellowship in Classical Studies, Duke University, 1994-2000
  • Phi Beta Kappa, Mary Washington College, 1994

Representative Publications

(More Publications)

  1. John F. Oates, Roger S. Bagnall, Sarah J. Clackson, Alexandra A. O’Brien, Joshua D. Sosin, Terry G. Wilfong, and Klaas A. Worp. Checklist of Editions of Greek, Latin, Demotic and Coptic Papyri, Ostraca and Tablets.  David Brown, 2001.
  2. "Unwelcome Dedications: Public Law and Private Religion in Hellenistic Laodicea by the Sea." Classical Quarterly  55 (2005): 130-139.
  3. "Alexanders and Stephanephoroi at Delphi." Classical Philology  99 (2004): 191-208.
  4. "Grain for Delos." Museum Helveticum  60 (2003): 65-79.
  5. "Grain for Andros." Hermes  130 (2002): 131-145.
  6. "Accounting and Endowments."  appeared 2003 Tyche: Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik.  16 (2001): 161-175.
  7. "Ausonius’ Juvenal and the Winstedt Fragment." Classical Philology  95 (2000): 199-206.
  8. "Lucretius, Seneca and Persius 1.1-2." Transactions of the American Philological Association  129 (1999): 281-299.

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